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WCAU NBC10 News At 5pm June 22, 2024

To effectively move emergency vehicles as well as a large number of buses that are expected. Lets talk about bridges, the ben franklin bridge is going to be shut down from new jersey into philadelphia. This is the first time officials have confirmed that for us. This will allow people to literally from new jersey walk across the bridge on the road into center city to see the pope, and lets hear from the drpa from a few minutes ago. The bridge will be closed to all vehicles except for emergency vehicles. And we will use it to allow pedestrians to cross into philadelphia from new jersey and back. Real quick, the walt whitman bridge will remain open. That will allow people to get from 95 into new jersey and back. As for when this all gets back to normal back to open again. It could take until monday by noontime. Live at city hall Randy Gyllenhaal nbc10. Our Team Coverage continues now with nbc10s george spencer. A lot of the popes events are in center city philadelphia. The street closures affect people in sur rounding neighborhoods miles away. Well beyond the immediate center city neighborhood, were talking about the Spring Garden neighborhood fairmount, even parts of the University City area will be impacted with traffic and lifestyle effects. The mayor said this is philadelphias moment in time. He admits the regular routines of residents will be altered for a couple days. I certainly do very very well. Understand that there are many many concerns. And this afternoon, mayor nutter addressed one of the biggest city traffic during the popes visit. Officials unveiled this map of the socalled traffic box in effect from that friday evening through at least sunday evening. The private vehicle lockdown zone bound in to the south by south street over to ridge and up to girard. From east to west, its basically river to river. Delaware avenue over to the Schuylkill River and up along kelly drive. Private vehicles can exit the traffic box during those days but they will not be allowed to enter the box at any point. Cars can drive within the box if theyre willing to navigate crowds and traffic. For now its not clear if cabs will be running within the box. Its one of the remaining details still being considered with the event 7 1 2 weeks away. In short, there are many people and agencies working in concert to create the best most thoughtfully executed plan for our city and region during the world meeting of families. Obviously the vine street expressway 676 runs right through the middle of that traffic box, it will be closed in both directions during those days. Parts of University City will be roped into the traffic box as crowds warrant. Live tonight at city hall. George spencer nbc10 news. Thank you very much. And again, these streets and highways, theyll be closed from friday september 25th through at least sunday september 27th. As we get more information about security transportation and other details surrounding the popes visit. Nbc10 will pass it along to you. Right now on the nbc10. Com website we have a special section called preparing for the pope. Let me show it to you in full now. All of the information officials have released today, including how septa, the trolley lines will be affected. We have a list of the popes stops and where you can see him. Were updating the information were scrolling through constantly. You can find all of this right now on nbc10. Com. O. Now to breaking news in folcroft Delaware County a body was found in a creek this afternoon, police are trying to determine if its the boy who vanished from that area a few days ago. Searchers discovered the body while looking for you 11yearold laquan lattimore, he was last seen monday afternoon on his bike. The fbi joined in on the search with local police. They passed out flyers searched through cars and waded into creeks. Searchers on board a boat on the darby creek found the body. The medical Examiners Office is working to identify it. His family says hes never run away or disappeared before. Worry me too, its not like quan not to show up or come in in a house. Hes usually outside playing around. Or i see him with the other boys riding his bike around here. Crime scene investigators and the medical Examiners Office are along the darby creek tonight. Right now at 5 00 an associate of congressman chaka fattah appeared in court for the first time today after both were named in a federal indictment. He bribed the congressman to arrange for an ambassadorship or other high level federal appointments. Fattah allegedly tried to help beader man in exchange for high value gifts for an appointment. Reporter he arrived here with the man who identified himself as a family friend and his attorney. The family friend pulled a car up to the curb and whisked beaderman away. He did not say much. Federal prosecutors say that he is involved in an attempt to bribe the congressman, that he provided money and other valuable items in order to obtain a federal appointment. He bought a car that never took possession of the car. Did you pay Student Loans . What do you have to say about the accusations . Nothing. Herbert didnt say much about his arraignment in federal court today, neither did his attorney. The arraignment will be at some point in the future. And at that point in time mr. Beaderman will plead not guilty and we look forward to vindicating himself. Its the first time weve seen him since the indictment was unsealed last week against him. U. S. Congressman chaka fattah and three others. He agreed to buy a used 1989 porsche from the congressmans wife for 18,000. Chenaultfattah has previously said in a letter to nbc10, but has done nothing wrong. The card sale was fraudulent and she considered to drive, title it and insure it years after the sale. Shahchenaultfattah has not been charged with a crime. Beaderman provided congressman fattah with gifts and other items of value in exchange for his help to obtain a federal appointment. The congressman denies any wrongdoing. He paid off the Student Loans of fattahs son. Now, he was able to sign a signature bond. Hes put up 100,000 bail, but not required to put up any cash only if he doesnt show up at his next court appointment. And according to the judge, hes had no contact with any of the other codefendants and hes to surrender his passport and any firearms if he has them. Future court dates have not been scheduled. Deanna durante, nbc10 news. Renee shah fault fattah is currently on leave from nbc10. Turning to this now, new at five, its about 111 days since the tax filing deadline. Nbc10 has learned hundreds of thousands of people in new jersey are still waiting for their state refunds. Cydney long went to get answers. Those people dont know when their money might come in . Thats absolutely correct. Were talking about money that new jersey residents say they deserve and that is right now being held hostage in trenton. Whether they would have stashed it away in the bank or perhaps spending on summer vacation. Its just annoying really frustrating that that refund hasnt come yet. Medford wife and mother of two is fuming with the state of new jersey. Usually get it direct deposited and i was looking at the things that are going to build up and i was i called my accountant i said wheres our tax refund. They filed their tax return in february two months ahead of the april 15th tax deadline and they are anticipating a refund in the thousands. Its taxpayers expecting larger returns according to partners the new Jersey Department of treasury and taxation are dragging their feet on. Theyre looking into all returns that they say look suspicious. Which is basically returns that have a larger refund. More than how much money . Maybe a thousand dollars or more. The state tells nbc10 it is finished working on 50,000 possibly fraudulent returns. This as the cpa association of new jersey says as many as 150,000 taxpayers are still waiting on the money thats owed to them. To access the automated refund inquiry system press flee. The state says its working to prevent Identity Theft and root out fraudulent filers looking to cash in on returns by using someone elses information. Is there any end in site . No nothing. Were just still waiting. We also reached out to governor Christies Office but so far have no response asking if theres a possibility that any state worker layoffs, perhaps lessen the number of people processing these returns, also is it unique to new jersey and will you get any monetary interest . Ill answer some of those questions when we see you at 6 00. Live in cherry hill im cydney long nbc10 news. Police respond to reports of another shooter at a Movie Theater. Next at 5 00. The timing of rain before the weeks over. Some of you will see quite a bit of rain, some of us not so much. An armed man opened fire in a Movie Theater in tennessee today. The man was seen wielding a hatchet, gun and pepper spray. This all occurred this afternoon at a theater in antioch, just outside nashville. A massive show of force outside the hickory 8 Movie Theater. A man armed with a gun and a hatchet entered a theering during an afternoon showing of mad max. Inside the theater, the gunman fired on an officer, before s. W. A. T. Teams moved in. The s. W. A. T. Team engaged the gunman, some minutes later, there was gunfire and the gunman is deceased. Just inside the Movie Theater. The suspect carried in two backpacks along with the weapons. Investigators are working to determine if the packs contain any explosives. One person is reported to have suffered a minor hatchet wound but did not require hospitalization. Three moviegoers were exposed to pepper spray, believed to have been dispersed by the gunman. The gunman unleashed this pepper spray throughout the theater. As additional officers the s. W. A. T. Team entered that theater, it was very thick with chemical spray with irritants. One eyewitness described the chaotic scene. It was very scary, a lot of police running local state officials remain on the scene. As the investigation gets underway. The shooting am coulds about two weeks after a man opened fire inside a Movie Theater in louisiana. John houser killed two people and wounded nine others before killing himself. Youll recall in 2012 james holmes shot up a Movie Theater in aurora colorado. Killing 12 people and wounding 70 others. A jury found him guilty and is now considered whether to sentence holmes to death for the massacre. New information about a shooting outside a military facility in mississippi. Someone opened fire at camp shelbey. Police are questioning someone about both shootings. No one was hurt in either shooting. The second incident happened around 8 00 this morning. Soldiers taking part in a Training Exercise heard gunshots. It happened in the same area where soldiers heard shootings yesterday. Witnesses gave a similar description of the shooter in both instances. Police have a person of interest in custody. Were learning more about a deadly circus collapse in new hampshire. The state fire marshall says circus workers told spectators to stay in the tent as the storm approached. As wind gusts picked up the workers suddenly told people to leave and find shelter. A man and his 8yearold daughter died when the tent collapsed. Authorities are now asking survivors for any pictures and video as they try to piece together what led to the tragedy. The fbi is invest gating the private email system that Hillary Clinton used when she was secretary of state. No allegation of wrongdoing its still bad news for the democratic president ial candidates who are having a down week in the polls. Nbc10 National Correspondent brian mooar reports from washington. Its exactly the kind of headline democratic president ial frontrunner Hillary Clinton doesnt need. The controversial private email system she used as secretary of state is the subject of an fbi investigation. Shes accused of no wrongdoing. The Washington Post reports its not a criminal broeb. Its primarily focused right now at this point of the security of information, emails that might be classified. Clintons Campaign Says she did not send nor receive any emails that were marked classified at the time. An Inspector General found hundreds of sensitive emails made their way through the private server in the clintons new york home. Some of this kept by her private attorney on a thumb drive. The fbi is asking whether the communications were properly safeguarded. Either way, its fresh fodder for republicans. I think any time the fbi is sniffing around your computers and home its not a good thing, who knows what the fbi is looking at. The state department continues to comb through the emails to see what more can be released. I really hope that it will be as quickly as possible. The Unanswered Questions arent helping in a time when Hillary Clintons Approval Rating ares are sliding. Brian mooar nbc10 news. Still a hot day today, a comfortable day. Humidity has been lower through the day, so feels nice the heat wave is finally coming to an end. Temperatures still close to 90 this afternoon, tomorrow were going to break out of the heat wave, with temperatures more into the 80s, were tracking rain before the week is over some of you could see quite a bit of rain as we go into friday mainly then we have a warm weekend on tap, some of that rain may linger for part of the area either way, temperatures will be warm again. Take a look at our heat wave weve had, its been 8 days of 90 degree plus temperatures right now, were only at 88 degrees in philadelphia, if we hit 90 today, that would be a nineday heat wave. Tomorrow well be around 83 degrees, were going to break out of that. Nice look at center city right now, humidity down to 31 . Doesnt feel any hotter humidity still low. Its going to be really comfortable even as we go through this evening. Some areas will drop down into the 50s through the overnight hours. Mid to low 80s, 82 in pottstown. Pretty comfortable there. Were nice and dry on the radar too. Makes for a nice afternoon, further away off to our west thats the area of moisture were watching for the end of the week here you she a big area of rain moving through the middle of the country approaching ken den and tennessee, thats where we have an area of low pressure and thats going to move in as we go mostly into friday. Watch as future weather sees that area of low pressure its going to bring that moisture in by early friday. Thats the rain i think most of it should be staying to our south. For friday afternoon, you see the showers possibly mostly heavy in south jersey and delaware. In that area of low pressure could hang offshore. Some of the models are indicating this as we go into saturday. If this were to happen it could get stronger and by saturday may not be a good shore day. Beaches in delaware not great for that. By sunday we expect it to move away and conditions will start to improve. As we go from late thursday into friday, its very early saturday. Most of the heavy rain looks to stay in south jersey and delaware. We could see about a couple inches of rain or so but of course well be updating that as we get closer. What this means for the shore and the delaware beaches, friday, temperatures about the mid70s, we expect rain there. Saturday a chance of rain and the winds will be picking up too. 74 degrees that area of low pressure strengthens off shore. Sunday were looking at a pretty nice day. Low 80s there, clear and comfortable, mid50s, areas north and west cooler north and west. Tomorrow, sunshine with increasing clouds rain at night tomorrow mostly south of philadelphia 81 to 84 degrees, that would be south jersey and delaware mostly tomorrow night. For friday same situation, just more rain. Temperatures could only be in the upper 70s, yeah the heat wave is pretty much done going into the weekend well be watching that rain along the shore. Better as we go into sunday. The temperatures still expected in the 80s. Honors last night for the 9yearold bat boy accidentally killed while doing his job. Kaiser carlisles little sister threw out the first pitch. It brought the crowd and players to tears, the team wore jerseys with the boys initials and everyone stood at a moment of silence. Fans donated to his family by buying a Baseball Card featuring the bat boy. His son just adored the team and the players loved him right back. Like i said before kaiser died from head injuries in wichita, kansas after getting struck by the bat of a player doing warmup swings. People in our region fighting cancer may soon have more options for getting care. How a new partnership could save lives. After several children in south jersey were given wrong or outdated vaccines. Prosecutors have decided if anyone will be charged. Drivers simply arent stopping, new Research Finds philadelphia ranks near the top when it comes to deadly intersections. Philadelphias the eighth most dangerous big city in the u. S. When it comes to red light running. 63 people died from red light accidents between 2004 and 2013. Safety advocates have launched an interester active map that identifies the most dangerous intersection and encourages drivers to stop when they see red. A local hospital expands its cancer care. Now offering breakthrough treatments. Lehigh Valley Health network has partnered with memorial sloankettering cancer center. The hospital says it will give local patients a higher level of care. Patients will have access to experimental treatments in Clinical Trials initiated at sloankettering. The new york based hospital is considered one of the Top Cancer Centers in the country. New dads are getting a break from some well known companies. Employees can take unlimited paid parental leave for a year after a child is born or adopted. During the first year both parents can take off as long as they need with pay. Microsoft followinged saying it will now provide paid par

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